The Container and Contained series explores the relationship between form and experience, through the idea of containment as a psychological, symbolic, and ecological principle.
The works function as spaces where the visible and the invisible coexist—surfaces that receive, hold, and transform memory, emotion, and layers of time.
Drawing from concepts rooted in psychoanalysis, jungian psychology, and ancestral worldviews, the series understands painting as a container capable of holding contents that have not yet taken definite form. The pictorial process—based on layering, erosion, and excavation—resembles both an archaeological and a psychic gesture: a way of allowing what is hidden to emerge without force.
Within this visual language, the “U” shape appears recurrently as a symbol of shelter, womb, and connection. This form refers to the human need to be held and to belong to something greater—nature, the Earth, the collective. As these forms repeat and interconnect, they generate an organic network, evoking relationships, interdependence, and living systems. The series establishes a parallel between psychic processes and natural processes such as sedimentation, erosion, and transformation.
